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Charles Édouard Guillaume

Born on February 15, 1861

165

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Charles-Édouard Guillaume (French:; 15 February 1861 – 13 June 1938) was a Swiss physicist who received the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1920 "for the service he had rendered to precision measurements in physics by his discovery of anomalies in nickel steel alloys." In 1919, he gave the fifth Guthrie Lecture at the…

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